Search Results
- IDNO:
- 026271
- Title:
- Old Domestic Items on Display at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- Description:
- 'One of the display tables at the festival showing some of the domestic items common to a mountain home two generations ago.'
- IDNO:
- 026272
- Title:
- Fiddler at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- IDNO:
- 026273
- Title:
- Crowd Gathered Around a Spinning Wheel at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- Description:
- 'Youngsters catch a glimpse of a vanished art. The spinning wheel hums busily before a background of hand-made quilts, representing a variety of designs once familiar to the folk.'
- IDNO:
- 026274
- Title:
- Keith Simmons Performing on a Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- Description:
- 'Keith Simmons performing an old song variously titled 'The Devil's Quickstep,' and 'Old Aunt Jenny with the Nightcap On.' The instrument, a true dulcimer, is a family heirloom which was damaged during a Civil War skirmish. Simmons plays it with two mallets made of wool yarn wrapped on corset staies.'
- IDNO:
- 026275
- Title:
- Fiddlers at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- Description:
- 'The ancient technique of 'beating the strings.' Andrew Burnside bows the melody while Gilbert Massey beats the strings. The music has a vaguely oriental flavor, but the tune 'Hell up Cold Holler' is as occidental as Bourbon and branch water.'
- IDNO:
- 026276
- Title:
- Mr. Bryant Playing Dulcimer at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- Description:
- 'Mr. H.B. Bryant, Canvas (Nicholas County). Mr. Bryant is playing the 'dulcimer' which he made. He makes an excellent instrument and sells it for $12.50. It is actually a rebec, an oriental instrument which was brought to England during the Crusades.'
- IDNO:
- 026277
- Title:
- Woman Playing Autoharp at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- Description:
- 'Mary Belle Workman singing songs taught to her by her mother; playing an autoharp.'
- IDNO:
- 026278
- Title:
- Fiddlers at the Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- Description:
- 'The ancient technique of 'beating the strings.' Andrew Burnside bows the melody while Gilbert Massey beats the strings.'
- IDNO:
- 026279
- Title:
- Fiddler and Old Man at the Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- IDNO:
- 026280
- Title:
- Fiddler and Boy with Dog at the Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- IDNO:
- 026281
- Title:
- Basket Weaving at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
- IDNO:
- 026282
- Title:
- Basket Weaving at Glenville Folk Festival, Glenville, W.Va.
